Issued from Confederate headquarters in Jackson, Tenn. by Capt. Newsome, orders a "cessation of hostilities against the forces of the US" and to "prevent all robbing and unlawful proceedings" and "inflict severe punishment upon all who may be...

Copy photograph of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, USA. Excoriated for his dilatory role at Shiloh, Wallace was stationed in Union Depot, now Bartlett, Tenn., later in the Civil War. Courtesy of the Bartlett Historical Society.

May 1864 edition of the Congressional "Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners." The US Congress was beginning to be dominated by Radical Republicans by 1864, and they used the massacre at Fort...